Iran lies on a transit corridor between opium producing Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe - Dude! Where's My Opium?
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Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:34:38 GMT
Iran has allocated more than $150 million to strengthen
border security and block the entry of drug smugglers into
the country.
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Armed drug traffickers have killed at least seven Iranian
police officers in heavy clashes near the eastern borders of
the country.
The Police commander of the Southern Khorasan Province,
Hamid Sharafi, told reporters Friday that the slain
policemen will be put to rest in the holy city of Mashad.
The Brigadier General noted that the clashes broke out when
security officials came to notice the group's drug
trafficking operation in the Southern Khorasan Province and
attempted to confiscate around two tones of drugs.
He added that four members of the drug trafficking network
were killed in the clashes, while one sustained heavy
injuries.
Earlier in July, Iran laid out a comprehensive multi-year
plan to tighten security along its borders as part of the
scheme to crack down on terrorists and drug traffickers.
Iran lies on a transit corridor between opium producing
Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe. Since the 1979
Islamic Revolution, the country has lost more than 3,300 of
its security forces in its war against narcotics.
The Tehran government's counternarcotics efforts were once
acknowledged by the Executive Director of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa.
Costa said that Iran was "making a massive sacrifice" to
stop the smuggling of drugs from Afghanistan to the West,
and therefore deserves "both the gratitude and the support
of the international community."
"The anti-narcotics police in Iran are among the best in the
world," Costa said.
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